Last May we started working on cleaning up ath6kl driver which is
currently in staging. The work has happened in a separate
ath6kl-cleanup tree:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/kvalo/ath6kl-cleanup.git;a=summary
After over 1100 (!) patches we have now reached a state where I would
like to start discussing about pushing the driver to the wireless
trees and replacing the staging driver.
The driver is now a lot smaller and looks like a proper Linux driver.
The size of the driver (measured with simple wc -l) dropped from 49
kLOC to 18 kLOC and the number of the .c and .h files dropped from 107
to 22. Most importantly the number of subdirectories reduced from 26
to zero :)
There are two remaining checkpatch warnings in the driver which we
decided to omit for now:
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/debug.c:31:
WARNING: printk() should include KERN_ facility level
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath6kl/sdio.c:527:
WARNING: msleep < 20ms can sleep for up to 20ms;
see Documentation/timers/timers-howto.txt
The driver has endian annotations for all the hardware specific
structures and there are no sparse errors. Unfortunately I don't have
any big endian hardware to test that right now.
We have been testing the driver both on x86 and arm platforms. The
code is also compiled with sparc and parisc cross compilers.
Notable missing features compared to the current staging driver are:
o HCI over SDIO support
o nl80211 testmode
o firmware logging
o suspend support
Testmode, firmware logging and suspend support will be added soon. HCI
over SDIO support will be more difficult as the HCI driver needs to
share code with the wifi driver. This is something we need to research
more.
Also I want to point out the changes I did for signed endian support.
As I wasn't able to find any support for signed endian annotations I
decided to follow what NTFS has done and added my own. Grep for sle16
and sle32, especially from wmi.h.
Various people have been working on the cleanup, the hall of
fame based on number of patches is:
543 Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
403 Raja Mani
252 Kalle Valo
16 Vivek Natarajan
12 Suraj Sumangala
3 Joe Perches
2 Jouni Malinen
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Raja Mani <rmani@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <nataraja@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Suraj Sumangala <surajs@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Currently ath9k presents the internal calibrated noise floor as channel
noise measurement, however this results in highly chip specific values
that are only useful as relative measurements but do not resemble any
real channel noise values.
In order to give a much better approximation of the real channel noise,
add the difference between the measured noise floor and the nominal
chip specific noise floor to the default minimum channel noise value,
which is currently used to calculate the signal strength from the RSSI
value. This may not be 100% accurate, but it's much better than what's
there before.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Make mesh_preq_queue_lock locking consistent with mesh_queue_preq() using
spin_lock_bh().
Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
OLPC power management code has recently gone upstream. This piece
completes the puzzle for libertas_usb, which now programs the OLPC EC
for wlan wakeups when they have been requested.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When testing for tx power, bypass the default limits.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Use the previously calculated maximum of all rates instead of just the one
from the lowest rate of the selected PHY mode.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Remove unnecessary includes from base.h. Add includes to other files as
necessary. Don't include base.h unless needed.
Move declarations for functions in base.c from ath5k.h to base.h.
Use a better named define to protect base.h against double inclusion.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Without CONFIG_HERMES_PRISM, only match cards that have "Version 01.01"
as the third product ID. Those have Agere firmware.
With CONFIG_HERMES_PRISM, match all 0x0156:0x0002 cards.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cards with numeric ID 0x0156:0x0002 and third ID "Version 01.02" can be
assumed to have Intersil firmware. Cards with Agere firmware use
"Version 01.01".
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This is needed to match wireless cards with Intersil firmware that have
ID 0x0156:0x0002 and the third ID "Version 01.02". Such cards are
currently matched by orinoco_cs, which doesn't support WPA. They should
be matched by hostap_cs.
The first and the second product ID vary widely, so there are few users
with some particular IDs. Of those, very few can submit a patch for
hostap_cs or write a useful bugreport. It's still important to support
their hardware properly.
With PCMCIA_DEVICE_MANF_CARD_PROD_ID3, it should be possible to cover
the remaining Intersil based designs that kept the numeric ID and the
"version" of the reference design.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
According to 802.11-2007, 7.3.1.14 it is compliant to use a buf_size of
0 in ADDBA requests. But some devices (AVM Fritz Stick N) arn't able to
handle that correctly and will reply with an ADDBA reponse with a
buf_size of 0 which in turn will disallow BA sessions for these
devices.
To work around this problem, initialize hw.max_tx_aggregation_subframes
to the maximum AMPDU buffer size 0x40.
Using 0 as default for the bufsize was introduced in commit
5dd36bc933 (mac80211: allow advertising
correct maximum aggregate size).
Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
If we receive an ADDBA response with status code 0 and a buf_size of 0
we should stop the TX BA session as otherwise we'll end up queuing
frames in ieee80211_tx_prep_agg forever instead of sending them out as
non AMPDUs.
This fixes a problem with AVM Fritz Stick N wireless devices where
frames to this device are not transmitted anymore by mac80211.
Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Devices supported by b43legacy don't support 64-bit DMA.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add support for v2 of enhanced sensitivity table for 2000 series products
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Update the default sensitivity value for both 5000 and 6000 series devices
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
For iwlwifi, I decided not to use this API since
it just increased the complexity for little gain.
Since nobody else intends to use it, let's kill
it again. If anybody later needs to have it, we
can always revive it then.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The previous P2P implementation turned out to
not work well and new uCode capabilities were
added to support P2P. Modify the driver to
take advantage of those, and also discover P2P
support automatically based on a uCode flag
instead of having a Kconfig symbol for P2P.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The availability of contexts depends on the
firmware capabilities. Currently only the
presence of the second context depends on it,
but soon P2P support will also be different.
Move the context initialisation code to the
firmware-dependent setup before registering
with mac80211 to make it easier to handle.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We're working on improvements for the firmware
for some devices, and need to bump the API for
those since they won't be backward compatible
completely (the earlier patch reserving queue
10 for P2P).
Bump the API version to 6 for those devices
but don't warn users of version 5 yet.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We sometimes need to support new firmware API for
a while before we can publish them since testing
them fully takes a long time. We could keep all
the new code private, but that causes plenty of
problems and sometimes we can give a pre-release
version of firmware to people who need to test.
However, when we just bump the API version, the
driver will warn everybody that their firmware is
outdated, when in fact it isn't. (Currently our
case for this doesn't really change the API but
bumping the API version is necessary because the
firmware isn't fully backward compatible)
In order to handle this in the future, add a new
"api_ok" version; only below this will the driver
warn that the uCode is too old.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
For _bgn device, remove ht40 support for 5.2GHz, it is probably ok since
the "band" is not support but just feel strange.
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
1000 series are 1x2 devices, the old default using static smps which only
use single antenna for rx, set the default to dynamic smps.
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
New uCode images will use queue 10 for TX
during scan (for P2P offchannel operation
scan). We'll bump the API version of those,
but before we need to reserve queue 10 and
stop using it for aggregation.
To simplify the code, always reserve it,
we could continue using it on older uCode
images but that'd be rather complicated.
Also, we'll set it up to map to the right
FIFO as needed later, but as we don't use
the queue now that doesn't hurt.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
When checking for the band, use channel->band.
Change ath5k_hw_nic_wakeup() and ath5k_channel_ok() to take
ieee80211_channel. Change ath5k_hw_radio_revision() to take
ieee80211_band.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
XR is a proprietary feature of the chipset. It's not supported and
should not be supported.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
struct ath5k_avg_val is unused.
In struct ath5k_hw, lladdr, ah_radar and ah_mac_revision are write-only,
rxbufsize is unused, ah_phy is write-only and referenced by unused
macros.
In struct ath5k_vif, lladdr is write-only.
Remove AR5K_TUNE_RADAR_ALERT, which has no effect.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch add support for the bcma bus. Broadcom uses only Mips 74K
CPUs on the new SoC and on the old ons using ssb bus there are no Mips
74K CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Prepare bcm47xx to support different System buses. Before adding
support for bcma it should be possible to build bcm47xx without the
need of ssb. With this patch bcm47xx does not directly contain a
ssb_bus, but a union contain all the supported system buses. As a SoC
just uses one system bus a union is a good choice.
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add method to return the clock of the CPU. This is needed by the arch
code to calculate the mips_hpt_frequency.
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This adds support for serial console to bcma, when operating on an SoC.
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This adds a mips driver to bcma. This is only found on embedded
devices. For now the driver just initializes the irqs used on this
system.
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds support for using bcma on a Broadcom SoC as the system
bus. An SoC like the bcm4716 could register this bus and use it to
searches for the bcma cores and register the devices on this bus.
BCMA_HOSTTYPE_NONE was intended for SoCs at first but BCMA_HOSTTYPE_SOC
is a better name.
Acked-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The chip common and mips core have to be setup early in the boot
process to get the cpu clock.
bcma_bus_early_register() gets pointers to some space to store the core
data and searches for the chip common and mips core and initializes
chip common. After that was done and the kernel is out of early boot we
just have to run bcma_bus_register() and it will search for the other
cores, initialize and register them.
The cores are getting the same numbers as before.
Acked-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This makes it possible to use this code in some other method.
Acked-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Move the parsing of the EEPROM data in scan function for one core into
an own function. Now we are able to use it in some other scan function
as well.
Acked-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The driver reads PCI subsystem ID from the PCI configuration register while it's
already stored by the PCI subsystem in the 'subsystem_device' field of 'struct
pci_dev'...
Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
mwifiex_get_bss_info() routine updates variable 'info->scan_table_idx'
but it is never used.
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Currently, "udevadm info -a -p /sys/class/net/wlan0" doesn't mention
the usb8xxx or libertas driver anywhere. This makes writing udev rules
a bit uncomfortable.
Using the USB interface as the parent device corrects the hierarchy.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The mesh device is now exposed as an interface of the wiphy.
This exposes the mesh device to the cfg80211 interface, allowing
mesh channel selection to be reimplemented, and available to
NetworkManager as it was before.
Some header tweaking was needed in order to implement lbs_mesh_activated().
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
A lot of code is dedicated to giving drivers the
ability to use cfg80211's wext handlers without
completely converting. However, only orinoco is
currently using this, and it is only partially
using it.
We reduce the size of both the source and binary
by removing those that nobody needs. If a driver
shows up that needs it during conversion, we can
add back those that are needed.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
replace IW_MAX_AP & IW_CUSTOM_MAX with local definitions
and remove usage of struct iw_statistics.
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
linux/wireless.h is for wireless extensions only, so
mac80211 shouldn't include it since it uses cfg80211.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
